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"[A]nalyzes scenes of 'undisciplined reading' in late medieval texts: that is, scenes in which characters read without formal training and with the 'wrong' emotions." Includes discussion of NPPT as a "bungled interpretation of Marie de France's…

Considers the frontispiece to TC found in Corpus Christi College MS 61 (which depicts Chaucer addressing a court audience, particularly the court of Richard II). The frontispiece shows that literature was delivered orally (by "prelection") and…

Chaucer's audience would not have come to BD with our preconceptions (that the Man is John of Gaunt and that his song is personal). Rather, they would have experienced the gradual revelations as they are unfolded and would have concerned themselves…

Study guide that describes Chaucer's life and historical context, and surveys the characters, plots, themes, and literary devices of CT. Designed for young adult readers; includes suggestions for essays and excerpts from critical studies.

Defines medieval romance as a narrative (usually poetic) that follows a hero's encounters with "love, ladies, and adventures, culminating in a happy ending." Whetter explores these features in Middle English romances, particularly Malory's "Morte…

Explores Deschamps's Ballade 285 in praise of Chaucer in the "context of late fourteenth-and early fifteenth-century humanist epistolary exchanges . . . including the polemic over 'The Romance of the Rose," and particularly . . . the exchange that…

Some scholars harbor a Golden-Age notion of chivalry not unlike that expressed in ParsT. Others, operating within a post-Freudian context, presume that the chivalric emphasis on ceremony must conceal inward anxiety or repression: hence, the…

Chaucer's fictions are opaque and self-conscious. Neither ordinary ironist nor allegorist, Chaucer is a nominalist "philosophical poet" for whom "divine truth is stable; human knowledge is provisional; and fiction is the means by which nominalist…

Item not seen. The WorldCat records indicate that this lecture is read by the author; also released as an audio cassette in 1973.

Provides a broad outline for an undergraduate course in Chaucer and a complete syllabus for a graduate course, the latter based on the author's conception of the development of CT.

The popular tradition of conviviality in Merrie Olde England stretches back through Shakespeare to Chaucer.

Includes discussion of Alice Chaucer's literary interests and patronage, literary involvement of her father (Thomas Chaucer), various manuscripts affiliated through common works (Chaucerian and otherwise), John Paston II's compilation and curation of…

Identifies a "number of medieval commonplaces" in KnT that support the notion that "greater idealism" is what distinguishes Palamon from Arcite, i.e., a "loftier" view, more a matter of theodicy than determinism.

Discusses the role of Criseyde as a niece and an aunt and how Chaucer depicts her mature persona.

Describes how "the part Pandarus attempts to play" in TC "is intended by Chaucer, though not by Pandarus, as a parody of the philosophical counsel offered to Boethius" in the Consolation of Philosophy. Focuses on the comedy of the "first scene"…

Reviews the theories and practices that underlie several works: George Russell and George Kane's edition of the C text of Piers Plowman (1997), Kane and Janet Cowen's edition of LGW (1995), Ralph Hanna's Pursuing History (1996), and A. V. C.…

Interdisciplinary collection examines "disciplinary and methodological forms" of medieval Scholasticism and questions of knowledge in the Middle Ages. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Uncertain Knowledge under Alternative Title.

The compassion for human failure and potential failure in Chaucer's GP reflects Christian awareness of sin and grace. Like later poets Christopher Hill, Seamus Heaney, and Ko Un (Korea), Chaucer is a "prophet-poet" whose recognition of human…

Analyzes the depiction of old age in MerT from a philosophical perspective, with particular emphasis on Epicureanism as it was understood during the Middle Ages. In Catalan.

Examines the narrative approach and rhetoric of MLT to assess the Man of Law as a representative and defender of political stability.

Assesses the terms used for varieties of dreams summarized in HF 1-12, comparing them with their source in Macrobius's "Commentary on the Dream of Scipio," with Latin usage, and with Chaucer's uses of the terms elsewhere in his works.

Uses the "chunnel" as a metaphor of the literary and cultural interconnections between England and the European continent,assessing classical and medieval influence on HF: Virgil, Ovid, and Claudian, along with medieval writers of Italy, France, and…

Mentions the electronic edition of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue, edited by Peter Robinson and others.

Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this is a translation of Astro into Italian, with an introduction. The publisher's information indicates that the volume includes an essay by Paolo Rossi on the place of the astrolabe in the history of…

Item not seen; cited in WorldCat as an anthology in Spanish of selections from CT, Boccaccio's "Decameron," and Don Juan Manuel's "Conde de Lucanor," with selection and notes by Susana G. Artal.